BIFF – PARALLEL MOTHERS
Rating: M
Duration: 123 mins
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Rossy de Palma, Penélope Cruz, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Julieta Serrano
Genre: Drama
Language: Spanish with English sub-titles
Bright International Film Festival
Two women, Janis and Ana, coincide in a hospital room where they are going to give birth. Both are single and became pregnant by accident. Janis, middle-aged, doesn’t regret it and she is exultant. The other, Ana, an adolescent, is scared, repentant and traumatised. Janis tries to encourage her while they move like sleepwalkers along the hospital corridors. The few words they exchange in these hours will create a very close link between the two, which by chance develops and complicates, and changes their lives in a decisive way.